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>Are multicolored neumono natural?
It is possible, but rare. It could be camo here, but that one science hive neumono... I don't recall if I ever learned his name, but the one that blew himself up had multiple fur tones.
"Not the part about me being dead." I say, getting a chuckle from Rokann. "I don't know what else they say about me and how much is exaggerated."
>"That you can resist a predator's influence, you killed a salikai barehanded, and ran around an enemy warship while they chased you around, and then took out a vernaut, a grottle, and assassinate the warhive's queen."
"... I guess the answer is yes, if you remember the word 'half', and nothing more." Resisted a predator? I wonder if they even know about my empathy blocking, if they think I resisted it with brute force. "I didn't kill a salikai or vernaut, and the grottle and queen was done with assistance." Rokann seems almost partially disappointed, but at least considers me honest. "Korli, how have you been?"
>"Oh, you know, living. The salikai didn't have any surprise orbital beam satellites they took me out with."
"What do you think of the outside world?"
>"It's huge, and I don't think I'd ever see all of it. What's wrong? You feel like you missed out on something?"
"Don't worry about it."
>"Geez, though, they really brought some top notch people on this mission."
"How so?"
>"Well, there's you, first off. Then Rokann here was in the binding of her ultrahive, which took about 15 years of wars that she fought the entire time in, even though she was just a kid at the time. And Biles is a top rank survivalist in his ultrahive, which very few people are. What was that about again, Biles?"
"The final test took place over one and a half standard galactic years." Biles starts explaining. "Our hive takes nine of the harshest environments of our planet. I get dropped in one, naked and alone, and have to survive one month. Then get a three day rest, and then dropped in the next biome, each one worse than the last, till I survive in all 9. The only thing I or anyone gets is a single radio, so that we have an option to bail out at any time. Using it is automatically a failure, of course."
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